DISCOVER YOUR CHRISTMAS PRECIOUS PRESENT

I speak and interact with so many people seeking to look good and from looking good feeling good about themselves – BUT really the reverse 
holds more truth.  If you first feel good inside then you will 
radiate beauty into  your outer world. 

Christmas is that special time of year where there is so much activity. Thoughts go to the future of what is to come, of presents, of festive fare, of family, friends. 

For some Christmas is a lonely time, a past time to remember and reflect on what was. For children it is all about that one special day and how to hasten its arrival. 

May I relate a story about a young boy listening to an old happy and cheerful man who was talking about a Precious Present. 

The boy was keen to get such a present for the old man told him that anyone receiving this Precious Present would be happy forever.  

The boy gave lots of thought to this for he knew about presents, the bicycle he had got for his birthday and the presents under the Tree at Christmas, but he also knew that the joys of these presents did not last forever.

He felt uneasy, what could this Precious Present be that could make him happy for ever? 

The boy grew into a man and still his quest for the Precious Present remained unanswered, and he was not achieving in life what he wanted.  

His disappointment turned to anger that no one had given him this Precious Present when he was a child.

In his frustration and anger he sought out the old man and shouted “Why don’t you just tell me what the Precious Present is?”  

“Only you have the power to make yourself happy” the old man said “Only you”

The boy – now a man spent many frustrating years searching, he read the latest books, he looked into a mirror and into the faces of others.  

He looked at the tops of Mountains, in cold dark caves, in the jungles and under the seas – but to no avail.

After many more years the once young man returned to talk to the old man for he was very unhappy. 

The old man however had grown even older and soon his voice was not heard. 

The young boy – now a man was on his own but recalled what the old happy man had told him many years ago, that he was the only one that could find his own happiness. 

He tried to understand what he had been told but had grown so tired of trying that he simply gave up.

And then out of nowhere it just….happened.  He realised that the Precious Present was just that:  

THE PRESENT - not the past, not the future but THE PRECIOUS PRESENT.

“Why” he asked himself “Didn’t I see this long ago?”

 In his questioning of himself he became unhappy but observed he was trapped about his guilt over his past.  

He returned to the present moment and was happy again.  

Soon he began to worry about the future and became unhappy again, but had the wisdom to see he was now living in the future – so the man chose to live in the NOW and was happy and at peace with himself.  

He agreed to savour each moment of his life, the apparently good and the apparently bad.  

He accepted each of his precious moments on this planet as…….a gift.

The moral of the story is some people choose to receive the Precious Present when they are young, others in middle age and some when they are very old.  Sadly some people never do.  

You can choose to receive the PRECIOUS PRESENT whenever you decide to do so.

Pain is just the difference between “What Is” and “What I Want It To Be”.

The Present is simply who I am, just the way I am…right now and it is precious.

Live in the NOW and experience all that life has to offer, a more healthy body and skin, a joyful attitude and have a fantastic ride on the “River Of Life”

Acknowledgement to Doctor Spencer Johnson author of the Perfect Present - a wonderful uplifting book.

Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with $86,400; carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day.

What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!

Well, everyone has such a bank.

Its name is TIME.

Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.

Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose.

It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.

Each day it opens a new account for you.

Each night it burns the records of the day.

If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow".

You must live in the present on today's deposits.

Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!